Georgia Recorder
This story was updated 11:50 a.m. Monday.
Environmentalists hold up the controversial proposal to mine for minerals near the Okefenokee Swamp as the poster child of the lands that lost federal protection under former President Donald Trump’s administration last summer.
That rule replaced an Obama-era one that opponents criticized as government overreach and shifted the focus of the Twin Pines Minerals’ mining application from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, which is now poised to decide the fate of the mining project.
The Alabama-based company submitted five permit applications this year to the state for the 740-acre mining demonstration that Twin Pines says will prove it can pull off the project without threatening the largest national wildlife refuge east of the Mississippi River.
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Court Told MasTec Can t Pick Terms In Arbitrating $250M Fight
Law360 (January 28, 2021, 10:03 PM EST) The owner of two biomass power plants alleged MasTec Inc. attempted to flip the dynamic of arbitration hashing out a $250 million construction dispute by filing a redundant arbitration demand two months after the plant owner initiated negotiations, according to a Thursday suit in Georgia federal court.
In its new complaint, Georgia Renewable Power LLC and two of its units which operate biomass power plants in northeast Georgia asked a Peach State federal court to immediately halt arbitration proceedings initiated by MasTec before the American Arbitration Association. The power company argues that rapidly approaching deadlines will force it to shell.
The end of 2020 couldnât get here fast enough for many. Itâs been the year of the toilet paper shortage, face masks, quarantines, job losses and political strife. It will be remembered as the Presidential election year when a pandemic altered life for people across the globe.
Coronavirus affected life in Madison County, too. And there were numerous COVID-19 stories on the front page of The Madison County Journal in 2020, but there was plenty of local news not related to the virus this year.
Here is a look back at front-page news in The Journal in 2020:
JANUARY
â¢Madison County commissioners voted 5-0 to include a referendum on the 2020 General Election ballot to allow voters to decide on whether to give senior citizens a break on their property tax bills.